There are 4
stages that everyone will pass through during the learning
process.
- Unconscious incompetence - This basically means that you don't know what you don't know.
- Conscious incompetence - This is where the
learner is aware that s/he does not know something or can learn
something new. Put more plainly, you realize that you are not as
expert as perhaps you thought.
- Conscious competence - This is where you have to think about a task or exercise in order to complete it correctly.
- Unconscious competence - Eventually you reach a point where you no longer have to think about what you are doing in order to complete it correctly. True experts often do things very well without thinking about it.
I think
that one of the best examples of this process is in the case of a
person learning to drive a car. It looks easy when you start but
there is a lot to learn when you actually get behind the wheel of a
car. Then years later you will drive a car without giving it any
thought at all. This leads to problems of people doing make-up,
talking on the phone, etc. while driving when they should be
concentrating on the task at hand. But that is a debate for another
lesson.
Here is a picture of the process from http://www.cognitivedesignsolutions.com/images/CompetencyMatrix.jpg
Here is a picture of the process from http://www.cognitivedesignsolutions.com/images/CompetencyMatrix.jpg
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